Ok Boomer: The newest offensive phrase.

[wheresmywoft]

Yeah that's true...I guess it's closer to dismissing someone's opinion simply because they are a millennial.

"Your opinion doesn't matter because you're just another X"

I see it more used in situations based on how someone thinks, or doesn't think. Than based on age.

[Egomaniac]

I see it more used in situations based on how someone thinks, or doesn't think. Than based on age.

That's usually how "millennial" is used too. Most of the time it isn't even describing actual millennials.

[Kumorii]

As with most descriptors it's used to dismiss and stifle discussion... what specific words you use doesn't really matter for that.

[Dwarfhamster]

Isn’t this the equivalent of calling a millennial a snowflake all the time?

[Yadryonych]

Isn’t this the equivalent of calling a millennial a snowflake all the time?

no, it's equivalent of "OK retard", but the retard is boomer

[Zaktar]

It isn't even as bad as that.

"Boomer" is just a generational descriptor. It has no direct negatives, other than by association with that generation. "Snowflake" is deliberately insulting, but "Boomer" just means you're born between '46 and '64.

It's insulting someone based on their age, so it is ageist, so it is definitely worse than snowflake, which can be applied to anyone. Don't get me wrong, it's not a devastating or foul "slur," just let's not be disingenuous about what it is. Suggesting it just has to do with a particular generation is just trying to muddy the water.

[wheresmywoft]

That's usually how "millennial" is used too. Most of the time it isn't even describing actual millennials.

Anecdotally, that is not how I've seen millennial be used. The person using the term typically doesn't talk enough for them to know the thoughts of the subject. The usual 'just work harder' type comments.

[Egomaniac]

Anecdotally, that is not how I've seen millennial be used. The person using the term typically doesn't talk enough for them to know the thoughts of the subject. The usual 'just work harder' type comments.

I've seen the word used to describe pretty much anyone under the age of 30

[Wyrt]

It's insulting someone based on their age, so it is ageist, so it is definitely worse than snowflake, which can be applied to anyone. Don't get me wrong, it's not a devastating or foul "slur," just let's not be disingenuous about what it is. Suggesting it just has to do with a particular generation is just trying to muddy the water.

Constant attacks on millennials and calling them snowflakes=ok
1 meme mocking Boomers= OMG IT'S LIKE THE N WORD!

Maybe we're just finding out that it's really Boomers who are the snowflakes.

[Drutt]

Boomers have been shitting on Millennials for years. Now someone makes up a meme disparaging Boomers, and we're supposed to be sympathetic?

That's a tall glass of nope.

[Lane]

Funny, I just posted this in another thread. Apparently it's being misused and this is the correct definition. :P

"ok boomer" doesn't mean "ok person born between 1946 and 1964"

It means, "ok person born into uniquely prosperous circumstances built on the backs of colonialism, slavery, and white supremacy, who believes that this prosperity was not only normal, but legitimately earned... and who is doing everything in their power to dismiss and disempower those not born into similar circumstances, for fear of even slightly encroaching on the immense privilege that they've ONLY used to enrich themselves at everyone else's expense."

As far as I'm concerned, it's not much different than "whatever, old man" or similar. I think it's about as disrespectful as calling someone "kid".

[Captain N]

Constant attacks on millennials and calling them snowflakes=ok
1 meme mocking Boomers= OMG IT'S LIKE THE N WORD!

Maybe we're just finding out that it's really Boomers who are the snowflakes.

That's blasphemous -- How dare Generation X, Y, and Z speak ill of the boomers. Those beloved older folks who were able to survive with one working adult for a family of 4. Those wonderful people who had affordable housing, college, healthcare, and union representation. Those folks who got all those wonderful social benefits from being born in an era of post-war America....and then pulled the ladder up behind them.

[Zaktar]

Constant attacks on millennials and calling them snowflakes=ok
1 meme mocking Boomers= OMG IT'S LIKE THE N WORD!

Maybe we're just finding out that it's really Boomers who are the snowflakes.

Odd that older people might be sensitive about their age or being labeled in a way that makes them feel irrelevant. Also odd that older people would have the same kinds of worries about young people that they have for thousands of years. If any of this surprises you, I don't know what to tell you /shrug

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Funny, I just posted this in another thread. Apparently it's being misused and this is the correct definition. :P



As far as I'm concerned, it's not much different than "whatever, old man" or similar. I think it's about as disrespectful as calling someone "kid".

Agreed.

[Wyrt]

Odd that older people might be sensitive about their age or being labeled in a way that makes them feel irrelevant. Also odd that older people would have the same kinds of worries about young people that they have for thousands of years. If any of this surprises you, I don't know what to tell you /shrug

Well, I find it amusing. If they don't want to be given shit then they shouldn't have been giving shit.

[TheramoreIsTheBomb]

There's nothing bad neither in n-word nor in ok boomer

According to what I’ve seen and read it is to boomers
Shrug

[Yadryonych]

Odd that older people might be sensitive about their age or being labeled in a way that makes them feel irrelevant. Also odd that older people would have the same kinds of worries about young people that they have for thousands of years. If any of this surprises you, I don't know what to tell you /shrug

Well the last presidential campaign MSM were warmongering a men vs. women social conflict but this time they do a boomer vs. zoomer

Nothing really new and expect it to escalate terribly over the next year and fade away soon after Trump's re-election

[Endus]

It's insulting someone based on their age, so it is ageist, so it is definitely worse than snowflake, which can be applied to anyone. Don't get me wrong, it's not a devastating or foul "slur," just let's not be disingenuous about what it is. Suggesting it just has to do with a particular generation is just trying to muddy the water.

It isn't even an insult. There's literally not one insulting thing in there. "Boomer" is explicitly a term that refers to people who were born as part of the Baby Boom after WWII. Literally all "OK, Boomer" is saying is "whatever, I don't care what you have to say". That's rude and dismissive, but it's not an insult.

[JohnBrown1917]

It's a pretty brainless meme phrase, and the people using it sound like three year olds who just learned a new word and are using it to describe everything they see whether it fits or not. Is that offensive? Not really. Says more about the speaker than the target.

Found the boomer.

[Netherspark]

The people who are declaring it an "ageist attack" are exactly the kind of people who have been complaining about 'millennials' for the last 20 years.

[Zaktar]

It isn't even an insult. There's literally not one insulting thing in there. "Boomer" is explicitly a term that refers to people who were born as part of the Baby Boom after WWII. Literally all "OK, Boomer" is saying is "whatever, I don't care what you have to say". That's rude and dismissive, but it's not an insult.

Okay Endus.